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The Wage and Hour Division reports: Health care staffing agency Jackson Therapy Partners, based in Orlando, has paid $134,073 in back wages to 40 non-immigrant employees hired under the H-1B program to work as physical and occupational therapists in 15 states, following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division.

Investigators found that the employer failed to pay the H-1B workers the required wage rate for the period of time between arrival from their home country, the Philippines, and reporting to their temporary work sites. Under the H-1B program, workers must be paid for all non-productive time caused by their employers.

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It seems that every day there is some announcement about U.S. immigration policy or immigration reform. It also seems that with every such announcement, immigration lawyers are flooded with inquiries by the documented and undocumented, as well as their U.S. citizen friends, seeking ways to take advantage of this perceived newfound benefit. Unfortunately, some “immigration advisors” also get those inquiries and seek to take advantage of what to them is a golden opportunity to reap great financial rewards from those who can ill afford the loss. The desperate, the poor and uninformed are easy prey for those notarios, “immigration advisors,” or others involved in the unauthorized practice of law.

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